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Alexander Surkov
web, a11y, technologies, shaping the future
Canada
I am a software engineer passionate about the web, open source and accessibility. I love math (I hold a PhD in differential equations) and nature (paddling Ontario on a canoe is my favorite), and many many other things.
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Hidden Gem of Chromium Accessibility
Low-level accessibility toolsThere’s a hidden gem in Chromium accessibility. It is the command line accessibility tools. Similar to accessibility insp
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Django + Postgres + nginx + uWSGI = ❤️
To date, I set up a production web service thrice. (Yeah, I am a full stack dev!) The first time I did many mistakes. That website still works, I main...
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HiDPI support in Chromium for Wayland
It all started with this bug. The description sounded humble and harmless: the browser ignored some command line flag on Wayland. A screenshot was att
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Hello world!
I am Alex, working on Chromium since 2013, Igalian since 2019, and chromie for a while now.
Chromie? Yes, that is what Chromium engineers use when re
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